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[MOD] Mount SD card as a folder of internal memory for CM7

This seems to be the best solution if you just want to stock mounting in cm7, I don't know if build.prop changes with every new nightly so you'll probably have to edit it after every flash.
Stikkontakt said:
SOLUTION:
1: Create a folder in your internal SD Card (in my case "ExternalSD")
2: Edit vold.fstab:
Code:
dev_mount emmc /mnt/sdcard/ExternalSD auto /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc1
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 9 /devices/platform/tegra-sdhci.3/mmc_host/mmc2
3: Edit /system/build.prop
Code:
# Mount the internal SD card, too
ro.additionalmounts=/mnt/sdcard/ExternalSD
your external sd card is now mounted inside internal sd card. If you go to settings/storage, it will come up as unavailable, but the external content is inside your selected folder
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nomedor said:
After that you can mount external sd as a folder of internal by using this command in terminal emulator:
Code:
mount /mnt/emmc /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD
The problem is that it can't survive boot and you have to write this command by hand every time. I tried to make it run on boot by adding the command in \system\etc\init.d folder as a text file but it didn't work, although it should.
Any help is welcome
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That's why it didn't works!
Thanks for bring it up! I hope someone will help you becouse the way stock roms mount sd card is way better!

pushing it up, since this here is an interesting topic. It does indeed make more sense to mount sdcards like the stock roms mount it...
Hopefully someone can figure this out.
Also i noticed that if you do not mount emmc/_ExternalSD it gets recognised by the pc and otherwise not. This could be coincidence since i'm struggling hard with mounting my sdcards to my mac...

Unfortunately you are right, after this trick pc can only see the external sd card!
Maybe this isn't the right way to do it or somehow it needs to automatically unmount before you connect the phone on pc and then on disconnect remount it again.
Sadly my knowledge is limited, but I think that a real developer can do it in a heartbeat.

I'm not a real developer, but I remember that the modified fstab has to be put inside the kernel ramdisk.
I have found these two perl scripts somewhere on the net. They can be used to extract and repack the boot image. Could be possible that the base address has to be modified to work on the O2x, haven't tried it myself yet.
Zip including the scripts are here:
h t t p ://tuxfighter.de/Share/Scripts/
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This is easy peasy lemon squeezy . For me at least since ex-dev.
Instructions:
Get root explorer (cba giving adb commands on my phone)
Mount r/w
Go to etc/vold.fstab
Mount r/w again
Long press the file and click open in text editor
Now at the bottom swap the mounts. Sdcard to /mnt/emmc
And
emmc to /mnt/sdcard
Save and exit.
Delete backup and reboot.
I will post a flashable zip if you want soon.
DONT FORGET TO THANK ME!
EDIT: just read first post properly. It should work on every boot. It is for me on my g2x. Try my easy method

The problem is that I can't find a way to mount external SD in "/sdcard/_externalSD" from vold.fstab where /sdcard is internal memory, just like stock rom.
It should be possible...

nomedor said:
The problem is that I can't find a way to mount external SD in "/sdcard/_externalSD" from vold.fstab where /sdcard is internal memory, just like stock rom.
It should be possible...
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Have a look at the stock vold then
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

I copied stock vold into CM7 and i got neither internal SD nor external SD then.

ranrick said:
I copied stock vold into CM7 and i got neither internal SD nor external SD then.
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I've already tried that. I can't understand why people are not interested in this

yeah, there are almost no applications which can use /mnt/emmc. So 1 partition is almost useless at current situation.

Any progress?
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ranrick said:
yeah, there are almost no applications which can use /mnt/emmc. So 1 partition is almost useless at current situation.
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Y dont u put all your pics,videos and music in emmc and leave sdcard for application data?
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webstar1 said:
Y dont u put all your pics,videos and music in emmc and leave sdcard for application data?
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Because we have to do It for EVERY new photo/Video

Stock's ROM vold.fstab is mounting /sdcard/_externalSD but this is not working on CyanogenMOD, it could be a CM7 "problem" after all!

No update? CM7 way to mount sd sucks IMHO!

katun79 said:
No update? CM7 way to mount sd sucks IMHO!
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if you want to test it (please do a nand backup before!), than try my kernel and add the -internal flag to it.
Download this
rename to vorkKernel-080611-internal.zip
and flash it.
It is untested, because I don't want this behaivour and I made it because a user requested it. So no gurantee that it will work etc.

Bennee:
From what i see in vold.fstab file in the flashable zip it only swaps paths...
Any luck mounting external sd in "/mnt/sdcard/_externalSD" ?

nomedor said:
Bennee:
From what i see in vold.fstab file in the flashable zip it only swaps paths...
Any luck mounting external sd in "/mnt/sdcard/_externalSD" ?
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there is a additional mounting script + some permission fixes. Should be called on every boot up (mount /mnt/emmc /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD).

Benee said:
there is a additional mounting script + some permission fixes. Should be called on every boot up (mount /mnt/emmc /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD).
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But it doesn't... _ExternalSD is empty with your kernel.

Internal Storage not Recognized after flashing CM7.1

Hi Guys, just flashed my O2X with CM7 and it worked fine but for some reason its not detecting the internal storage. What happened is that I followed the instructions, saved the zip on my external sd card and then flashed it. Did I do something wrong?

Heyy could you say what CM7 version you are using? Plus it sounds like you did everything fine.
Sent from my Optimus 2X using XDA App

Try to reflash it ....
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mags014 said:
Hi Guys, just flashed my O2X with CM7 and it worked fine but for some reason its not detecting the internal storage. What happened is that I followed the instructions, saved the zip on my external sd card and then flashed it. Did I do something wrong?
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Nope, you did it right.
Sounds like you haven't used CM7 before, it's easy to think the internal SD is gone, but it isn't. CM7 by default mounts the external SD-card as /sdcard, where your internal card used to be mounted.
The internal card is at /mnt/emmc.
There is an option in the settings somewhere where you can switch them around (don't have CM7 installed at the moment, but just search in the CM7 Nightlies thread and you'll find lots of info about it.)

TrymHansen said:
Nope, you did it right.
Sounds like you haven't used CM7 before, it's easy to think the internal SD is gone, but it isn't. CM7 by default mounts the external SD-card as /sdcard, where your internal card used to be mounted.
The internal card is at /mnt/emmc.
There is an option in the settings somewhere where you can switch them around (don't have CM7 installed at the moment, but just search in the CM7 Nightlies thread and you'll find lots of info about it.)
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I think you are wrong, i am on CM7.1 and by default my internal sd card was in mnt/sdcard and external is mnt/emmc. Now I use FadeFX 1.6 update, which changes this to internal sdcard - mnt/sdcard and external sdcard to mnt/sdcardexternal_sd as it is on samsung ROMs..... (for this you need to check this feature in settings you mentioned) ....

goranbm said:
I think you are wrong, i am on CM7.1 and by default my internal sd card was in mnt/sdcard and external is mnt/emmc. Now I use FadeFX 1.6 update, which changes this to internal sdcard - mnt/sdcard and external sdcard to mnt/sdcardexternal_sd as it is on samsung ROMs..... (for this you need to check this feature in settings you mentioned) ....
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Ok, they may have switched the defaults around since the last time I tried it. Doesn't take away from the main point of the post though. Mount points are different in CM7 from what people are used to, and confusing if you don't know about it.

But only external sd is different... internal it is the same, isn't it ???

goranbm said:
But only external sd is different... internal it is the same, isn't it ???
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No, I was right. (Just installed the latest nightly)
External card mounted as /mnt/sdcard, also reachable from a symbolic link /sdcard.
Internal card mounted as /mnt/emmc.
default install.

Because This feature was introduced from nightly #148 or something .... And he installed CM7.1 wich is nightly #144 I am on this too, so I know how it was after installation.

goranbm said:
Because This feature was introduced from nightly #148 or something .... And he installed CM7.1 wich is nightly #144 I am on this too, so I know how it was after installation.
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Nonsense. It's been like that since nightly #1. There were however KANGs floating around which switched mountpoints, you may have used one of those.

Thanks for the info guys...yes this is my first custom ROM and my first CM so sorry for being noob LOL
For some reason its now working. What I did was rebooted my phone, removed the external SD, and it somehow assigned sdcard for internal storage. Rebooted the phone and put back the external SD, and its now emmc...weird but it works now. I just have to move my apps all over the place

TrymHansen said:
Nonsense. It's been like that since nightly #1. There were however KANGs floating around which switched mountpoints, you may have used one of those.
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No i was on stock... I was reading nightly thread.... This is the way that I understand :
Before nightly #149 thing was fine, but after this nightly users must check option "use internal storage" and then everything works fine...
If i got it wrong, i apologize.

goranbm said:
No i was on stock... I was reading nightly thread.... This is the way that I understand :
Before nightly #149 thing was fine, but after this nightly users must check option "use internal storage" and then everything works fine...
If i got it wrong, i apologize.
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You're in the wrong forum, aren't you? That's why everything's confused, you're talking about CM7 on the Galaxy? This is the Optimus 2X forum.

Ohhhh my god .... can't believe how stupid this is.... I apologize for this. I am o cell phone, and did't see this.... so embaresed
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[Q] How to make SD card as Internal memory in Samsung Note

Dear All,
I am using Samsung note my internal memory is full. Recently I have purchased 32 GB SD Card and I have transferred by music, videos and pics to SD card.
I want to know is there is any option by which application automatically gets installed in SD card?
Please Help.

i have the same question, pls help

manually via the free app2sd on play, I dont know of one that does it automatically, it would be nice if there was one.
John.

Hello
I don't think so there a trick available for the same.
But there are apps available in the play store, using them you can move your any installed apps in to SD card...

Lakra1983 said:
Dear All,
I am using Samsung note my internal memory is full. Recently I have purchased 32 GB SD Card and I have transferred by music, videos and pics to SD card.
I want to know is there is any option by which application automatically gets installed in SD card?
Please Help.
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You can change the SD card to be internal memory by doing the following system settings > storage > storage configuration > use internal storage. Works fine for me.

no such settings in ICS here

Flash Paranoid Android ...

chintamanijaipuri said:
Flash Paranoid Android ...
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is it better than stock ics chintamani?

meethere said:
is it better than stock ics chintamani?
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Hell Yeah. You can move between tablet and phone mode or a hybrid of the two as well as per app density changes. i use this with the Thor V11 kerenl and its about 40% quicker than stock ICS and so many new features. You won't regret the move.

sad that I cant see any paranoidandroid rom 0.2 video on youtube.
BTW Thor V11 kerenl - what it exactly does?

meethere said:
sad that I cant see any paranoidandroid rom 0.2 video on youtube.
BTW Thor V11 kerenl - what it exactly does?
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There are loads of v0.1 examples on there, even the official thread has some however v0.2 has a lot more features and is smoother. If I have time I will make one tonight after work and upload for you. No guarantees though.
The kernel acts as a mediator for your programs and your hardware. First, it does (or arranges for) the memory management for all of the running programs (processes), and makes sure that they all get a fair (or unfair, if you please) share of the processor's cycles. In addition, it provides a nice, fairly portable interface for programs to talk to your hardware.
There is certainly more to the kernel's operation than this, but these basic functions are the most important to know. Obviously each kernel does things in different ways however I found Thor V11 with undervolting and overclocking to be by far the best.

follow the instructions in this link to turn your sd partition into internal memory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448596

htchd2ics said:
follow the instructions in this link to turn your sd partition into internal memory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448596
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OP-Do you research before doing anything dangerous. Since this threat is for Desire HD and not Galaxy Note. Be very careful.
If you have that 32GB micro-SD, you can use it as your phone's internal SD card with an easy vold.fstab swap. Your reduced capacity internal storage would then become your "external" SD card. This link should help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377628
Courtesy - Mister Mxyzptlk

I don't have that option
luke1404 said:
You can change the SD card to be internal memory by doing the following system settings > storage > storage configuration > use internal storage. Works fine for me.
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I don't have that option on my vitality/admire phone. Is ther another way?

Problem mounting internal storage on JB Roms

Hi
Some time ago I tried JB Paranoid Android and my internal and external storage worked fine but switched back to ICS roms because of the problems JB roms had.
Now I guess they are more stable and wanted to try again so I installed Utacka's P.A. and I couldn't mount the internal storage. Some apps like camera said I had to insert an sd card. My sd card is mounted as my internal storage and the internal storage isn't anywhere.
I thought it was a problem with the rom so I went back to rocket miui and everything was fine.
Now I saw the cookies and cream Rom and wanted to try it but I'm having the same problem.
I searched in this forum for similar posts and tried ICS SD Binder and it doesn't work (or maybe I'm doing something wrong) and Remount Sd without luck.
According to Solid Explorer, my "Internal" sd's path is /mnt/extSdCard ("Internal" because in fact it's my external sd card) and I also have a /mnt/sdcard folder which says it's empty.
I would really apriciate any help and I'm sorry for my bad english and possible spelling mistakes.
Thanks

perri.etb said:
Hi
Some time ago I tried JB Paranoid Android and my internal and external storage worked fine but switched back to ICS roms because of the problems JB roms had.
Now I guess they are more stable and wanted to try again so I installed Utacka's P.A. and I couldn't mount the internal storage. Some apps like camera said I had to insert an sd card. My sd card is mounted as my internal storage and the internal storage isn't anywhere.
I thought it was a problem with the rom so I went back to rocket miui and everything was fine.
Now I saw the cookies and cream Rom and wanted to try it but I'm having the same problem.
I searched in this forum for similar posts and tried ICS SD Binder and it doesn't work (or maybe I'm doing something wrong) and Remount Sd without luck.
According to Solid Explorer, my "Internal" sd's path is /mnt/extSdCard ("Internal" because in fact it's my external sd card) and I also have a /mnt/sdcard folder which says it's empty.
I would really apriciate any help and I'm sorry for my bad english and possible spelling mistakes.
Thanks
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I had a similar problem, I used ICS SD Binder, checked all 3 options and rebooted. It worked for me. Did you check all 3 options?

Quarmzz said:
I had a similar problem, I used ICS SD Binder, checked all 3 options and rebooted. It worked for me. Did you check all 3 options?
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Yes, I did. Every time I reboot ICS Binder force closes so I guess it isn't really doing anything.
Do you remember which original mount point you chose?

perri.etb said:
Yes, I did. Every time I reboot ICS Binder force closes so I guess it isn't really doing anything.
Do you remember which original mount point you chose?
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It force closes for me too. Though quite annoying, it still works. I chose the something that looked like mnt/ExtSdCard (maybe I didnt spell it correctly but it is the closest to that spelling.) I think the original was odb... Try and lets see if it works...

Quarmzz said:
It force closes for me too. Though quite annoying, it still works. I chose the something that looked like mnt/ExtSdCard (maybe I didnt spell it correctly but it is the closest to that spelling.) I think the original was odb... Try and lets see if it works...
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It's not working for me. When the phone reboots, at the beginning appears a message saying it's checking for errors on the sd card and if I enter to settings/storage it looks like if it is mounting correctly because it says internal storage 11 gb and it looks like if it is scanning it and external storage 29 gb. Then ICS Binder force closes and the external storage desapears and the internal stoage is 29 gb.

[ Request ] External storage "swap" with internal for Xperia Z1

Please try to make a mod
External storage "swap" for Xperia Z1. that will be safe for z1
So that we can make external SD card react as our internal storage by doing this we can directly downloads every thing on our SD card and can install more HD games.
Usually 1 HD game have 1GB to 1.5 GB Data and 5 to 6 games fill up all 11 GB available Internal storage in our device, but if we exchange our internal storage with our SD card than we can fulfill our requirements by using a 32GB or 64GB Sd card
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Right now I am using Gameloft to SD app for moving all my games to SD card
1) First fix your remount reboot error get it from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317432
if you did not have recovery then use windows.exe installation method. Rooted device is requied
2) Download GL to SD app from play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp&hl=en
move your games data
3) After moving data you can play games by this method only
3.1) open GL to SD app
3.2) you will see two button on top right side, first button is mount and second one is for unmount
3.3) press the mount button
3.4) Now click on play button which ever game you like to play
4) after close the Gl to SD app all the folders unmounted, so if you want to play again you have to open GL app again and mount the games.

zohaib0001 said:
Please try to make a mod
External storage "swap" for Xperia Z1. that will be safe for z1
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Umm.. Why do you want swap with 2 gigs of RAM?

B1nny said:
Umm.. Why do you want swap with 2 gigs of RAM?
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does External swap has anything to do with the RAM?

Swap is normal terminology for offloading the least used data to slower drives. I suspect that the op is asking for a way to use the memory card as internal storage, and vice versa.
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deconfrost said:
does External swap has anything to do with the RAM?
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Sorry I could be very wrong here, in that case sorry. I thought OP was referring to making a swap partition on the sd-card and using that as swap. I've seen people do this on 'low-RAM' devices to increase multi-tasking a bit. That's why I wondered what he was up to since he has 2 gigs of RAM.
sveintore said:
Swap is normal terminology for offloading the least used data to slower drives. I suspect that the op is asking for a way to use the memory card as internal storage, and vice versa.
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Ah that could be it! Thank you!

B1nny said:
Sorry I could be very wrong here, in that case sorry. I thought OP was referring to making a swap partition on the sd-card and using that as swap. I've seen people do this on 'low-RAM' devices to increase multi-tasking a bit. That's why I wondered what he was up to since he has 2 gigs of RAM.
Ah that could be it! Thank you!
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yep he's looking to swap internal storage with ex-sd, I would like to be able to do that too, I have like 2gig left on internal and a 64GB card only being used for camera, photos, videos and very little music
was using that on the XZ but I stopped using it for some reason, don't remember what it was

deconfrost said:
yep he's looking to swap internal storage with ex-sd, I would like to be able to do that too, I have like 2gig left on internal and a 64GB card only being used for camera, photos, videos and very little music
was using that on the XZ but I stopped using it for some reason, don't remember what it was
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Hmmm well you could try simlinking your internal storage to your external sd-card, or only do it for specific folders. I never tested this by the way so I have no idea what could happen if you do this, but it's an idea.
Thank you as well by the way!

I am not asking a Ram increase swap mod i am asking for internal storage swap with external storage Mod
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Please try to make a mod
External storage "swap" for Xperia Z1. that will be safe for z1
So that we can make external SD card react as our internal storage by doing this we can directly downloads every thing on our SD card and can install more HD games.
Usually 1 HD game have 1GB to 1.5 GB Data and 5 to 6 games fill up all 11 GB available Internal storage in our device, but if we exchange our internal storage with our SD card than we can fulfill our requirements by using a 32GB or 64GB Sd card

I use the Foldermount app along with this little fix.

slonn said:
I use the Foldermount app along with this little fix.
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I tried Folder Mount with that fix, but can't get it to work.
The linked folders will mount, but when launching the moved games, it is asking to download additional files again.
The files from the Install.bat of the fix have correctly installed on my phone as well.
So not sure what is going on.
Can you play moved game successfully on your phone?

Bigmille said:
I tried Folder Mount with that fix, but can't get it to work.
The linked folders will mount, but when launching the moved games, it is asking to download additional files again.
The files from the Install.bat of the fix have correctly installed on my phone as well.
So not sure what is going on.
Can you play moved game successfully on your phone?
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after moving all data open folder mount app again now you will see that game you moved click on it then find a button that look like a pin
when you pin your moved folder then game should work

slonn said:
I use the Foldermount app along with this little fix.
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thanks its working

Maybe you could try this
http://bit.ly/19klEpy

Maybe you could try :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239289

thunder888 said:
Maybe you could try :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239289
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hmm ... have you or anyone tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733 which is quoted above ??
does it work for Z1 also??
I would like to give it a shot but dont want to risk bricking my device ...
the method given is pretty simple so I can follow but would love to get some opinions from people who have tried this on Z1

jagdesh said:
hmm ... have you or anyone tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2180733 which is quoted above ??
does it work for Z1 also??
I would like to give it a shot but dont want to risk bricking my device ...
the method given is pretty simple so I can follow but would love to get some opinions from people who have tried this on Z1
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I don't have Z1 but I've try both of them on my XV. I prefer to framework modifiying. Just rooted - deodexed your current rom and edit framework.jar.

thunder888 said:
I don't have Z1 but I've try both of them on my XV. I prefer to framework modifiying. Just rooted - deodexed your current rom and edit framework.jar.
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I have rooted the Z1 but cannot unlock the bootloader which is required to De-oxdex the rom because at the moment if you unlock your bootloader you will loose camera functionality
So the option i choose is the one which the script manager
But before I enable that i wanted to know if anyone here tried it on their Z1 and if it works ..

jagdesh said:
I have rooted the Z1 but cannot unlock the bootloader which is required to De-oxdex the rom because at the moment if you unlock your bootloader you will loose camera functionality
So the option i choose is the one which the script manager
But before I enable that i wanted to know if anyone here tried it on their Z1 and if it works ..
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you do not need to unlock the bootloader to get a deodexed rom

gregbradley said:
you do not need to unlock the bootloader to get a deodexed rom
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I know that ,, sorry did not mention earlier, in order for Deodexed rom you need Recovery and right now recovery has some issues which should be fixed soon ..

jagdesh said:
I know that ,, sorry did not mention earlier, in order for Deodexed rom you need Recovery and right now recovery has some issues which should be fixed soon ..
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If you gonna try framework swap mod, you can read this thread.